Facing the brunt of exploitation at the workplace, sometimes sexual, interns are seeking the help of labour laws to assert the rights guaranteed to all citizens under the Constitution.   Sadiq* (name changed), a 4th year law student at Jamia Millia Islamia, after his 1st year was interning under a Supreme Court lawyer. All seemed […]

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With substandard engineering colleges mushrooming across the country, students are finding it increasingly difficult to get jobs. Many end up turning to other professions or prepare for competitive exams What do parents first say when their child is born? “Hope he/she becomes an engineer or a doctor?” This might sound like a ludicrous exaggeration but […]

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As per IIT Delhi’s 2018 placement report, 854 candidates who registered for placements while 373 companies came for campus recruitment. Contrary to the popular notion that computer science and engineering graduates are most in demand, it was textile engineering which had the maximum job offers (11%). Among the participating companies, Intel (32) made the maximum […]

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Soon after I completed my 12th, my father said, “Get admission in some good engineering college through AKTU (Abdul Kalam Technical University) and JEE (Joint Engineering Exam). Once you have a BTech degree, you will easily get a job.” Since I was not one of those diligent students who managed school and IIT coaching simultaneously, […]

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